13. Juliette Binoche in Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991)

Juliette Binoche stars as a woman in a fall in Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, playing both tender and tragic. Here she is Michelle: emotionally fragile yet fiercely independent and trapped in her own world but trying to reach out to another soul. Binoche gives the film raw, vulnerable work that holds all the anguish that love and loneliness can entail. This performance, in which Binoche manages to balance emotional chaos with tenderness, is one of the most striking and memorable in French cinema.
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Edited by Apoorva Jujjavarapu